Waikerie residents want another say on prawn farm plans

A group of Waikerie residents has sent a letter to the Loxton Waikerie Council, appealing against a proposed aquaculture farm near Waikerie.

Adelaide-based developer A-Culture Holdings wants to build the $5.5 million prawn and finfish farm on rural land south-east of the town.

About 30 people signed the letter calling on the council to put the project through a second period of public consultation.

However, the council's chief executive, Peter Ackland, says the development application is no longer under its control.

"As the regional development assessment panel has made a decision, it's not council's decision to make now and so the only avenue left to people in relation to that is to make an appeal to the regional development assessment panel and if that is the case, then the council will look at that appeal on that basis," he said.

"Essentially because the Riverland Regional Development Assessment Panel has made a decision, the council has no role to play in terms of that decision, now that a decision that has been made.

"There is an appeal process that sits within the development Act that allows people that may have concerns with the decision, with the development assessment panel, to lodge an appeal."